The government’s repudiation of this serious and unacceptable violation of national sovereignty and the rights of people and companies.

Keith Murphy, CEO of Defence Intelligence – an Ottawa-based information security company – said economic interests are at the root of the alleged espionage, and noted[8]:

It’s scary a little bit the level of co-operation between the agencies. Now we’ve got solid proof from some of the slides that were released to say that not only had Canada penetrated these systems, but they are actively sharing that data with the U.S.

[7] called it industrial espionage: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/report-on-brazilian-television-says-canadian-spy-agency-targeted-brazils-mines-ministry/2013/10/06/15d01952-2eff-11e3-9ddd-bdd3022f66ee_story.html